subject: Beautifying Your Christmas Tree With The Mini Lights - Cool, Simple And Affordable [print this page] Decorating with mini lights is simple and fun, especially since they're available in every color of the rainbow. They're versatile and affordable, making them an ideal choice for your highlight decorating projects. mini lights add sparkle and soft illumination to plants, shelving, cupboards, ceilings, outdoor landscapes, buildings, fences, swing sets, and much more. It doesn't consume a lot of time and money to convert a room or endeavor using mini lights. This is certainly good news for those people who would like to add some sparkle but don't have the time to invest in a comprehensive project.
Use What You Have
These tiny but functional light strings can be utilized in conjunction with items you may already have in your home. For example, good candidates to use with tiny lights are glass beads, precious metals, river rocks, ivy, tulle or lightweight sheer fabrics, marbles, glass vases and bowls, candlesticks, and many more. Are you wondering what you have tucked away in the craft storage room?
Easy and Cool Ways to Decorate with Mini Lights
Here are a few off the wall ideas that I hope will keep you motivated to use mini lights in your home:
Planter side furniture - who doesn't bear an extra planter, to spare each season? Sprinkle paint it a color that matches the decor of the room you want to put it in next, fill it with sand. Place strings of lights over the top of the fine sand. Use any color light bulb that affects your imagination. Cover the planter with a piece of glass that overlaps the width of the planter so it makes a small table. Isn't that lovely? It's an inexpensive way to use unused planters and it's an inexpensive way to add small highlighted side tables to any room of the house.
Glass containers, vases, or bowls - glass is certainly versatile too and that can be used for so many designing purposes. Fill a glass pot of any shape with white-colored mini lights and glass marbles. Imagine the wonderful color choices in that pot when you're finished! This would be a gorgeous foyer table highlight, office or den display.
Table legs wrapped in lights - your home improvement store is a fun area to walk around and get hints. Take table legs for instance. The thicker ones are durable and pretty with some woodwork accents on them already. Take a pair of at least three home in varying heights. Shade or stain the wood to match your decor and attach them to a wooden footing. Enclose the legs in mini lights. If the desk legs are large enough put a small potted plant on top. Group the three of them in an otherwise dark nook of a room or on the front balcony and you've instantly added charm and beauty to the area!
Create illuminated headboard - using whatever wood you have lying around and some mini lights, you can make an unique headboard. Old doors or just ordinary plywood works fine. Once you've finished, stained, or burned out the wood the way you wish it, drill pockets into the wooden material where you'd like the lights to come through. Hang the headboard a few inches from the wall then string twinkle lights connected to the wall at the back of the headboard so the brightness can shine through. Voila - a lighted headboard!
Fill glass blocks from the vessel store with lights - Use them to highlight a bookcase or a window.
Load a vase with a set of mini lights - Make use of the lit vase as a nightlight in a bath
Adorn for a party - Use twinkle lights to cover in your favorite team's colors during the next big game.
You're directed to the craft closet and the toolbox, aren't you? Have a great time decorating with Christmas lights and transforming your space into something truly beautiful!
Check out for mini lights online and see all the colors of lights, bulb spacing, and wire colors available to make your yearly project absolutely fantastic.
